Sheriff: Motorcycle MC member targeted in deadly shooting in Florida

Odessa, FL (December 22, 2017) — Pasco County deputies are investigating a shooting death near the intersection of the Suncoast Parkway and State Road 54.

Sheriff Chris Nocco said the shooting is related to motorcycle club activity and releases photos of the suspects. "This shooting, thank God an innocent person was not killed," said Sheriff Nocco.

Investigators taking photographs of a customized motorcycle  

A witness heard three loud "pops" and saw the driver of a truck slumped over. Investigators have not released the identity of that driver but tell us he was a documented motorcycle gang member.

PCSO is now asking anyone with information to come forward about the two people who fired the shots, seen riding motorcycles with the tags covered up.

Sheriff Nocco says it appears this was an internal issue and the victim was targeted.

Investigators at scene of shooting taking photographs 

However, he warned about the impact escalating biker gang violence has on the community.

"We're concerned about that one bullet that doesn't hit its target and hits the wrong person, hits an innocent person that's just trying to live their lives," said Sheriff Nocco.

Some portions of both roads remained shut down hours after the deadly shooting. Many drivers were forced to take alternative routes or wait in an area that already experiences heavy rush-hour traffic.

"We were about 20 minutes late, there's just an incredible amount of traffic on the highway here and we're just stuck at light after light," said Matt Devine, who was stuck on S.R. 54 trying to get to a family dinner.

SOURCE: ABC Action News

Dutch Court: Bandidos MC ordered out of Country

Utrecht , Netherlands (December 20, 2017) — Dutch judges have now banned the Bandidos Motorcycle Club throughout the Netherlands  and ordered all of its chapters to close down immediately, saying it posed a public threat.

The case had been brought by the Dutch prosecution service, which alleged the bikers were involved in drugs and arms trafficking as well as prostitution.

“The Bandidos characterize themselves as lawless and use slogans that contain violent messages,” the court in the Dutch city of Utrecht said in its ruling.

Bandidos MC Back Patch

“The club has a culture in which carrying out serious violence is encouraged,” it added, highlighting how patches crowing “Expect No Mercy” were handed out to members after bloody fights.

“A ban is therefore necessary in order to protect society.”

The lawyer for the Bandidos, Marnix van der Werf, told the NOS public broadcaster they would appeal. The club has argued that they should not be banned for the acts committed by individuals.

But the Minister for Legal Protection Sander Dekker welcomed the ruling, saying in a tweet that “such clubs undermine our legal system”.

He added that the government would press ahead with its pledge to outlaw all motorcycle gangs.

Founded in the United States in 1966, the Bandidos Motorcycle Club opened its first chapter in The Netherlands three years ago in the small southern city of Sittard. Other Bandidos chapters then opened in the cities of Alkmaar, Utrecht and Nijmegen.

But the Bandidos presence raised the hackles of its bitter rivals the Hells Angels, and the southern Limburg province has witnessed a rise in violent crimes, including Molotov cocktails being thrown at members’ homes and ugly public brawls.

Bandidos MC members on a club run

Other countries such as Germany have already moved against the Bandidos, while in the United States motorcycle club leaders have been arrested and charged.

The Bandidos penetrated into Scandinavia in the 1990s, triggering a bloody war with the Hells Angels which lasted a decade.

Dutch justices have also tried in vain several times to outlaw the Hells Angels as a criminal organization.

The court said there were more than 200 Bandidos chapters around the world with some 2,500 members.

The Netherlands is also moving to ban what it considers homegrown outlaw motorcycle clubs including Satudarah and No Surrender which was established in 2013 and has seen rapid growth in recent years.

SOURCE: The Phuket News

Building shared by Outlaws MC catches fire

Toronto, Ontario (December 20, 2017) BTN— Toronto firefighters discovered a small, licensed cannabis grow operation while battling a three-alarm blaze in a building complex shared by the Outlaws motorcycle club overnight Wednesday.

Crews responded to the fire at 40 Barbados Blvd., near Eglinton Avenue E. and McCowan Road, at 1:37 a.m. and discovered the location is home to a heating and air conditioning company.

The building also houses the Outlaws motorcycle club's Toronto East chapter

(Biker Trash Network)

Firefighters had to "forcibly gain access" to the interior of the building which also houses the clubhouse of the Toronto East chapter of the Outlaws, a Chicago-based motorcycle club with chapters throughout the world. The complex was empty when firefighters arrived. Biker Trash Network.

It soon became clear that the fire was also burning in the building's roof, which required crews to cut a hole in it and use an aerial ladder to douse flames from above.

Firefighters had to battle the blaze from inside and from an aerial ladder over the roof 

(Biker Trash Network)

In all, about 20 trucks responded to the scene. The blaze was under control by 3:20 a.m., according to Toronto fire Capt. David Eckerman.

Firefighters eventually discovered what police said is a licensed, legal cannabis growing operation in the building. Eckerman said it was determined that the grow-op was unrelated to the fire.

Investigators were at the scene this morning, probing how the blaze may have originated.

SOURCE: CBC News

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